Massive Scrap Aluminum & Copper recovery. Weekend Scrap Marathon Pt 1
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2023
- In todays video I recover tons of aluminum from HID lighting. Got a new customer that gave me a massive pile go heavy cast aluminum light fixture. Also an old friend of the channel stopped by to help. Stay tuned for Pt. 2 Thanks for watching! #recycling #scrapping #scrap #copperwire #aluminum #diy #projectshopfl #copperking #led #ledlights #lighting
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Hi Derek, As someone that was in the mining industry for over 40 years - don't mess with the mercury. One little spill could cost you BIG $$ as a haz-mat clean-up. Don't let it touch your skin! Great video! Thumbs up! Stay safe. Jim
Thanks for the warning! 👍
Man the yards up here in Wisconsin would be calling your clean aluminum... breakage! LOL You don't know how good you got it :-)
I hear that a lot. lol
hope you make a kiling on all that scrap and good too see oliver back to he seems to know what you want him to do .thanks for shareing keep the faith .so ready for the stster machine build too
Thanks! 🙏 I make out ok
I love the fast forward 🐝.
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Sounds like you're in a great mood good to hear in these times I hope it stays that way for you.
Thanks, I'm usually in a good mood.
Dewalts are good. Agree most brands are about the same. Keep flexability with common battery. Also agree, bits ware out. Drives me crazy when other scrappers keep using the same old bits, then complain when the screws strip out. I like your locking extensions too. Working smarter. 👍
Thanks! 👊
Hey Derek. Just started scrapping as a hobby. Can you do a short vid explaining copper categories, please. Not necessarily the whether or not it's worth, but the different categories themselves. Thanks for the content. Always informative
Check out thubprint. He has some good videos on that
Hi, Good luck on your scrapping and yes I have been thinking of doing a video on different types of scrap and how to identify it.
24 oz Eastwing is a lifetime hammer!
It's a pleasure to watch y'all's videos man.
Lots of interesting materials and procedures.
Hope you're doing ok.
Thanks, everything is fine.
Hi Oliver!! Good working Derek.
Thanks mom! ❤️
Yeahhh right before bedtime
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You got your buddy back! Always good to see you guys work togther making $$$ keep doing yur thing.
He has a full time job working with his cousin so it's rare he has free time any more. Before he had a different part time job at night.
these weekend scrap marathons are always elite
Thanks!
I know you’re sure as hell going to try. I will be watching. 🐎✌️
Thank you! 👊
Saving some of the hardware nuts, bolts and pieces for your stash is great idea. The prices of hardware is getting expensive.
I just made a video cleaning my tool room. 😳 I found so much stashed stuff. lol
I used to get pallets of tinted safety glass and I ended up tapping the corner and letting it shatter and using the broken safety glass on the side of my drive spreading it in the gravel. It looked really cool at night when the car lights hit it. And it kept people who didn't know if it would cut their tires from parking out there.
Nice, Thats a great idea.
Hit the nail on the head with that battery argument about tools. These companies lock you in by their proprietary battery packs. Even though they all use the same Samsung 18650 lithium batteries. They could easily make it so you can swap dead cells out or make the battery packs universal connections to all brands of tools.
Thanks, they would not make record profits that way. lol
@@ProjectShopFl haha right! for good measure got to throw in some planned obsolescence too. "Oh your battery pack you have been using for years. yeah that design is no longer going to be supported."
Anyways, have a good day man. Your channel rocks and the nuggets of comedy are gold.
Had me laughing hard at that joker comment cause i was thinking the same thing as soon as i saw ya pick it up. Another good scrapping video bud!
Thanks! lol IMO that was the best Joker.
It's Oliver. He's another hard worker. More lights. Is FL going dark??? Stay safe.
😂😂😂 No Fl is changing to LED's at a rapid pace
Great video my friend
Thank you 👍
Seeing this video just made me happy…. Great work brother. Greetings from Manchester uk
Thanks!
Trivia time mate, I still have a claw hammer, which my dad gave me as a teenager, i am now 72. now that dad has passed on, i have ended up lots of his engineering tools, that God only knows how old they are. I have actually found some good uses for most of them.
Thanks for sharing. I love old vintage tools. I just got 2 cool pipe wrenches for $10 from a local scrapper.
Time for a new enclosure!!!
Yes, it's been time. lol
While watching this video my neighbor called and told me that she had an old ceiling fan to give me and an old light in her kitchen so you brought me some good luck both are over 30 years old so I suspect it's copper. Thank you.👍
Both the ceiling fan and your neighbor? 🙂
Thats awesome! lol
You've got a very lenient scrapyard, most yards want the aluminum to be 100% clean or they'll give you breakage for it.
I am very grateful. It kinda make me mad when I hear what other yards make people go through.
Great score buddy, and yes, live the hatchet 😂
Thanks!
hello project shop fl & it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks project shop friends randy .. and i am enjoy yours video is cool and super project shop fl thanks friends randy
Hello Randy 👋 Thanks for watching!
34:12 smart guy alert
😂 Thanks!
What a great video you guys rock great job
Thank you! 👍
I hear you with the guns and batteries. There pretty much the same. Except Milwaukee fuel but it's all most like buying 2. .
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Mercury- as a kid I used to play with it. Breaking open a thermometer and rub a copper penny with the mercury between my fingers to make it shiny like a dime. 70 years later I'm not dead. Can't be that bad.
Funny my mentor told me he did the same thing as a kid. lol
Sell the glass to an anger management course 😂
😂😂😂 I love that idea. lol
nice cast alu lamps...🙂 a lot of street ligts from the old days in germany are heavy, glass-fiber rainforced plastik...that sucks...but the transformers are always copper....in germany they never produced aluminium transformers the last 80 jears... 🙂 only came from china, this yunk. 🙂
China ruined the transformers.
love it
Thanks!
You have me worried that you are going too have a trailer failure pretty soon. Derek, have you considered buying a heavy duty long dual axeled, i beam framed, steel decked trailer ;t. If not just build one that has 2-3 foot metal sides and room for your crane in the front.. All the other goodies you need can be added. Bite the bullet. Copper on.
Yes! I'm looking for a goose neck trailer but they are not cheep.
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What is your budget? I live in the Charleston, SC area; and there are a lot for sale: used; new and it's like everywhere else. I think if you make cash offer on new, or used; you would be surprised. Funny , as I was writing you the first email, I thought, "What he really needs is a goose neck and fifth wheel. Makes best sense. A lot of these trailers are from Construction Sub Contractors. Not trying to tell you what to do. I am sure you think about all this shit in your sleep. Take it easy. Really enjoy the channel.
Makita baby!
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Haha Scrap Tetris 😂😂👍 Happy Scraping
Thanks! 👍
Hey buddy, those things you're cutting wire with are tin snips you need a pair of lineman's pliers they are made to cut wire.
Thanks for the suggestion, I know they are tin snips I like them because I can cut copper and tin with them. For the transformers they work better because of the longer blades
Tropicana in Bradington Florida used to buy glass but I think now they’re making it all in plastic
I haven't found any one to buy it or take it for free.
Have you ever thought about welding drawers on the underside of the work table to organize your frequently used tools/bits?
No but now I am.lol Thanks for the suggestion
The curved ones maybe not but man those flat square glass pieces would be awesome for a greenhouse or somethin, might be worth just throwin em up on craigslist see if anybody wants to come pick em up for free. Better than paying to get rid of em.
I will try that next time I get a bunch.
Used to be a place on ochachobe bulivard that recycled glass . Don't know if they paid for it but they crashed it and sent it to places that maid bottles
I wish I knew where it was.
@@ProjectShopFl you got a phone right ? Google glass recicle centers un west palm
You should be able to take the glass to the recycling center on lantana and 95
Thanks for the tip. Will they take it for free?
@@ProjectShopFl ya they should they take car batteries, TVs, computers, gasoline, paint, fire extinguishers
Im allowed 1-2%. Some of those light sockets have been stainless if not brass or alum. for me.
Nice! I've only had brass sockets
There are a few destruction rooms/businesses actually around town that might love the glass scrap, dunno if they would pay for it but they might at least come pick it up from you.
Maybe I should start charging people to come smash glass. lol
i know this magnetic stainless steel,,, here in germany we call it crome-stell, or cromagane.... also some fors, and spoons and wasching maschine drums are this material...the most scrapyards dont like it...
but may big dealer by it,,,the price is alwas between brepared steel an stainless steel... last time i get 30 cent/pound
Thanks for sharing, I will check and see if my takes it.
I wouldn't replace any of my dewalt tools I love them. Plus I am in the same boat as you I have 9 or ten dewalt 20 volt tools it would be expensive to replace. Especially when the other brands are no better.
Exactly! All the other ones I have work like champs so I think its a connection issue with the battery
@@ProjectShopFl I have one of the 3 speed impacts like yours and it has issues to.
You never take some time off ??
Like your videos !!
I try but I have too much to do. lol
You know you are getting old when you can’t remember where your funny bone is located.
I can't remember what day it is. lol
It seems to me that if nobody is recycling glass or plastic that this represents a business opportunity in Florida.
Interesting, I will look in to it.
If I needed nuts and bolts these days I'd probably start scraping. Prices are outa control.
I have buckets of nuts & bolts I'm gonna have to start sorting them because I don't even know what I have at this point. lol
Guatemalan boy is back!
He had some time off his full time job.
@@ProjectShopFl yesssssss
Does he know I refer to him as Guatemalan boy hahaha
Whastb you need is a bigger trailer. with 5000 lb Axles
Thanks for the suggestion
All those little screws and stuff like that will float on top when they melt it
Thanks for the info. 👍
Yeah need some toolboxes to organize all the tools you have
I know, I have some tool boxes but not big ones. lol
46:06 A mountain of money 😀
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Are playing Musical Guns, I seen a asult + Shot, You should dump the heavy glass 2 bags a day for free
I was thinking about doing just that. lol
Why DeWalt??? Because it is the best!! 👍 I've run nothing but DeWalt for over 25 years.
I've only had issues with that particular drill and I might take it apart to see if it's just a connection issue because when it works it's a badass.
Recycling mercury. All I know is it’s highly toxic. Be careful on your next mercury endeavor.
😊 In the mid 60’s jr high school, the science teacher had a pan full of mercury. He floated metal wrenches on it. I’m guessing he had no idea the dangers he exposed himself and a bunch of curious teens. I’m still alive😂
Wow! I seen where in the old days light houses used mercury as a bering
Do you have a glass breaker? always see you hit with hammer. The glass breakers they sell for keeping in your car are amazing just the tiniest hit with shatter
I have an auto center punch I usually use. I think I've showed it before if not I will next round of lights. lol
@@ProjectShopFl sweet! About to fly back to Nashville. We were in Dania beach. Pretty sure not far from you for the funeral. Maybe next time my son and I can swing by the shop lol . He was like Dad! I want to meet project shop! Doesn’t he live in Florida! Hahahaha
what I like to say when I am getting a call from a number I don't recognize. " If you are real leave a message"
Exactly! 👍👊
How do you find your customers for getting all these lights? Do you just have a local ad in the paper or on facebook and construction crews just give you a call to come haul off their scrap for them?
Years ago I cold called a bunch of electrical contractors. I haven't done any advertising or sales in 12 years.
Are you putting the screws in with the steel?
Yes, If I don't save them they go in the prepared steel.
If your yard paid no1 insulated for all that no2 as long as the connectors were taken off would you? My yard does and I do! Crazy that they do it but lucky me I guess
I never tried, they might get a rejection at the mill.
@@ProjectShopFl I ain’t trying to slip it through with no1 they asked me one day if I was feeling ok? Because I brought all of that in as no2 with the plug ends and connectors….. said if I cut them off I get no1 . I said no way but they do and still crazy to me. Either they don’t know what diff is or they don’t care
Question brother winters here and it's cold. What's winter like out there
It's 80 out side I'm working in shorts. lol
@@ProjectShopFl lol brother I wish
Was there alcohol involved in the breaking of the glass???
😂😂😂 No I don't drink alcohol.
i also must pay for glass and plastic... but we pay 200 dollasr/ ton...😞
Dang! 😳
Why not clear up the rented space, before collecting new stuff?
I try but when scrap calls I have to go get it or I loose it.
Everytime you have to use a flathead,you say"I hate flatheads".
You are not alone,Phil from Canadian Treasure Hunter says the same....🪛...
😂😂😂 Glad I'm not the only one. lol